C & I 335 Summer 1998
Brian Abeling
Pekin District
108
Pekin, Illinois
Pilot Program Teachers
Every year, an additional group of forty teachers enter our 4-year comprehensive staff development plan known as the pilot program. As a segment of the program, teachers learn how to produce a web site for their classroom. However, because there are other topics that need to be covered, teachers receive only two full days of web page construction - one day during their 2nd year in the program and another full day during the 3rd year in the program. After the training, teachers receive support from the instructors, their building webmaster, and the on-line resources that were are now constructing.
Who is responsible for the training:
Sheila Watson and Rosalie Wendelin are the primary trainers for the
pilot program. My role will be to develop the training agendas and
materials for this specific topic. In addition, I will be responsible
for training both Sheila and Rosalie to make sure that they are comfortable
with the training agendas.
One-day training session for 2nd year pilots
(those who are getting their first training in web page development)
Date (TBA, probably early October)
Netscape Composer Basics
Trainers: Sheila Watson and/or Rosalie Wendelin
Time: 8am -3:30pm
Training Strategies: Strategies will include lecture/discussion, small
groups activities, and individual work. A majority of the time will
be spent working individually on their classroom site.
Location of Training: District 108 Tech Center
Materials needed: Each teacher will need to bring their laptop and
connect it on the docks that are in the Tech Center.
Class Agenda:
The overall objective of this training is to instruct teachers in how
to construct a basic web site for their classroom which will provide basic
information about what's going on in their classroom to parents and the
general public. In addition, teachers will develop a plan for how
they will integrate their classroom web site into their classroom activities.
1. Study other teacher homepages to collect ideas for their own page.
2. Small groups discussion and brainstorming activity on how they might
integrate their classroom web site into their classroom activities.
3. Understand difference between Navigator and Composer windows
4. How to change fonts, colors, and font sizes.
5. Utilize various spacing techniques such as paragraph styles, indents,
and shift-space bar tricks
6. How to obtain copyright free clip-art from other web sites
7. How to insert this clip art and/or photos into your web pages.
8. How to create hyperlinks between web pages.
9. How to insert various backgrounds and background patterns.
10. How to insert and edit horizontal bars
11. Creating targets for better organization
12. Learn to creating e-mail links
13. Creating links to other types of documents (word, excel, powerpoint,
pdf files)
14. Creating and editing tables to create better design layout.
15. Configure Cuteftp 2.0 to transfer files to the web server.
16. Practice loading their web pages on to the web server.
For those teachers who have already mastered the skill above or want
additional resources after the training, we will create an on-line resource
area with written directions and instructional videos on the following
topics:
How to use Bobby 2.0 and Dr. HTML to analyze your web site usability
How to use Adobe Photodeluxe to create and edit your own graphics for
the web
How to use ThumbsPlus to create picture pages from digital camera pictures.
How to translate Excel documents into HTML
How to translate Word documents into HTML
How to translate PowerPoint presentations into HTML
How link sounds and videos to your web site
How to use the scanner to capture pictures for your web site.
One-day training session for 3rd year pilots
(those who are getting their second training in web page development)
Date (TBA, probably late October)
Advanced web development skills
Trainers: Sheila Watson and/or Rosalie Wendelin
Time: 8am -3:30pm
Training Strategies: Strategies will include lecture/discussion, small
group activities, and individual work. A majority of the time will
be spent working individually on their classroom site.
Location of Training: District 108 Tech Center
Materials needed: Each teacher will need to bring their laptop and
connect it on the docks that are in the Tech Center.
Class Objectives
The overall objective of the second round of training to instruct teachers
in how to post student projects and other products that demonstrate what
type of activities are taking place in their classroom.
1. Learn to use Thumbsplus to generate picture pages from a disk of
digital images.
2. Learn to translate PowerPoint
3. Learn to translate Word and Excel documents into HTML
4. Learn the basics of using Adobe Photodeluxe to edit graphics for
use on your web page.
- Crop photos
- Resize photos
- Adding text
- Saving in gif and jpg formats